Dr Katie Ekberg

Dr Katie Ekberg is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University. Her research focuses on psychosocial issues related to hearing loss, examining real-world communication with adults and children with hearing loss, and patient- and family-centred hearing care. She has specific expertise in using conversation analysis to examine real-life, video-recorded interactions with people with hearing loss, both in clinical appointments and in everyday social interactions. Some of her recent research has involved designing and implementing an intervention to improve family-centred care in adult audiology appointments and examining the stigma experiences of adults with hearing loss and their families.